Jove Books
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Parent company | Berkley Books (Penguin Group) |
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| Founded | 1949 |
| Founder | Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Official website | berkleyjoveauthors |
Jove Books, formerly known as Pyramid Books, is an American
History
1949–1969
Phil Hirsch was vice president of Pyramid Books from 1955-1975 and had his name as author or editor on many of Pyramid's books, many of them anthologies of jokes, cartoons and humor, or concerned with the military and warfare, including some which combined those interests.
In the 1960s Pyramid published two of the first three books attributed to
1970–present
Among the notable projects at Pyramid in the 1970s was a series of reprints of the pulp magazine novels and novellas about
A series of "crossover" books, bridging prose fiction and comics, was the eight-volume Weird Heroes series of anthologies and novels (1975–77), where new superheroes and pulp-magazine-style adventure heroes were featured, as edited for Pyramid by Byron Preiss, and featuring contributions from, among others, Ellison, Philip José Farmer, Jeff Jones, Archie Goodwin, Michael Moorcock, Beth Meacham, Jim Steranko, Ted White and novels as well as short fiction by Ron Goulart. Another Preiss project with Pyramid was in more-traditional, if early, graphic novel format, the Fiction Illustrated series.
The Jove branding was refocused not long after the purchase by the Putnam Berkeley Group, away from fantastic fiction generally and more toward crime fiction, further publication of John Jakes's and similar historical fiction, romance novels (including some with fantasy elements), and western series novels, such as the Longarm (book series) franchise; among the last notable fantasy-fiction titles as an HBJ/Jove Book was the 1979 variant edition of Robert Bloch's collection Pleasant Dreams, which varies in content from all previous editions (but like them, includes Bloch's fleshing out of an unfinished short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published as "The Light-House" in 1953).
References
- ^ "Happy 80th, Phil Hirsch! (war anthologies & joke books)". Newsgroups.derkeiler.com. 2006-08-18. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2014-03-26.